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Circe's island
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aeaea
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__NOTOC__ Aeaea or Eëa ( or ; , Aiaía ) was a mythological island said to be the home of the sorceress Circe . In Homer 's Odyssey , Odysseus tells Alcinous that he stayed here for a year on his way home to Ithaca . The modern Greek scholar Ioannis Kakridis ...
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alt. (context Greek mythology English) The mythical island said to be the home of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe. n. (context Greek mythology English) The mythical island said to be the home of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe.
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But at least the next stop was Aeaea, where Odysseus had promised to get them a good feasting with plenty of meat and sweet wine from Circe.
She lived on the island of Aeaea, attended by four nymphs, in a house or castle of well-built stone.
On their route back to Hellas, Medea and Jason stopped at Aeaea, the isle of the enchantress Circe, who was Medea's aunt and sister to King Aeëtes.
The year spent on Aeaea wining and dining and enjoying the sexual favors of Circe was, of course, a necessary break after spending ten years away in Troy.
Yaeger continued, "he sailed to the island of Circe, called Aeaea, which computes as Navidad Bank, a spot Homer placed on the edge of the world.